Director of Engineering, Media & Entertainment (M&E)

CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at www.coreweave.com. CoreWeave is seeking a Director of Engineering, Media & Entertainment (M&E) to lead the development of next-generation cloud platforms and tools that power modern content creation workflows. This role will drive the engineering strategy and execution for solutions that support visual effects (VFX), animation, rendering, and post-production pipelines used by studios, artists, and creative teams worldwide. As a senior engineering leader, you will build and lead high-performing engineering teams responsible for designing scalable infrastructure, developer tools, and user-facing systems that enable creative professionals to run complex production workloads in the cloud. You will collaborate closely with product, design, infrastructure, and customer teams to translate real-world production workflows into reliable, high-performance software platforms. This rol [... source excerpt omitted ...] y, and usability for demanding creative workloads. About this role: Leadership & Strategy Build and scale high-performing engineering teams focused on cloud platforms for media production workloads including rendering, simulation, and content processing. Recruit, mentor, and develop engineering managers and senior engineers while fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and collaboration. Define and execute the long-term engineering strategy for Media & Entertainment products and services. Partner with Product and Design leaders to translate industry workflows and customer needs into scalable platform capabilities. Establish engineering best practices for reliabili [... source excerpt omitted ...] ategic business objectives. The role will involve leading teams responsible for core platform capabilities, including APIs, automation, and cloud orchestration layers that enable customers to provision and manage compute resources at scale. Technical Leadership Lead the design and development of scalable backend services, APIs, and developer interfaces that power M&E cloud workflows. Build platforms that support demanding workloads such as rendering, asset processing, and distributed compute pipelines. Drive architecture decisions for cloud-native systems leveraging technologies such as Kubernetes, distributed services, and infrastructure-as-code. Ensure the platform enable